Iyo-no-Kato

The Iyo-no-Kato were a feudal Japanese samurai clan from Iyo Province ruled by the Kato clan. Their leader in 1591, Yoshiaki Kato, was one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake of the Toyotomi clan, yet sided with Ieyasu Tokugawa's Eastern Army in the Sekigahara Campaign.